Cavs vs. Raptors: Live updates as Cleveland looks to avoid season-series sweep

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cavs will look to bounce again from arguably their worst lack of the season, in addition to look to keep away from a season-series sweep by the Raptors on Sunday night.

Cleveland hosts Toronto, and tipoff from Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse is at 6 p.m. EST.

Advisable Cavs tales

The Cavs (38-25) had been on a roll earlier than the All-Star break, successful seven straight earlier than dropping the ultimate recreation earlier than the break to the Sixers. Since returning, the Cavs have misplaced two extra video games, their first three-game dropping streak since December.

On Friday, Cleveland suffered a 136-119 loss to the Hawks on the highway on the second night time of a back-to-back. The Hawks, a group in the midst of an All-Star break teaching change, dissected Cleveland’s top-ranked protection all night time. They scored a season-high 81 factors within the first half, together with 49 within the second quarter. They shot 50 of 85 (58.8%) from the sphere and 15 of 28 (53.6%) from 3-point vary.

“I’m not going to exit and make any excuses,” Donovan Mitchell instructed reporters following the loss. “Everyone can exit and say we performed final night time, however I’m not listening to it. We have now to proceed to construct and get higher. We simply didn’t come out the best method and that’s on us. All of us should take that. We have now to discover a solution to do it. It’s time. It’s that point I used to be telling you about initially of the 12 months. It’s time to choose it up. We’ve dropped these two. Now we now have to go and reply.”

On Sunday, the Cavs will look to keep away from the season-sweep by Toronto, having misplaced the opposite three matchups this 12 months 108-105, 100-88 and 118-107.

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